AHI Carrier South Africa, the official distributor of Toshiba air conditioning in Southern Africa, recently took 13 of their specifying consulting mechanical engineers from across South Africa to view their world-class factory in Bangkok, Thailand.

Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc, is reportedly developing a new way to store renewable energy that otherwise might be wasted—by using salt and antifreeze. The company's research lab ‘X’ has codenamed the project ‘Malta’.

The Bitzer International Refrigeration Seminar (IRS) Symposium recently took place at the Schaufler Academy in Rottenburg, Germany where Professor Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, former director of the UNO centre for science and technology, gave a lecture about energy efficiency and the use of resources.